“Amopera” with Needcompany and Klangforum in Hong Kong, South Korea and Vienna
From March 19, Holger Falk will be touring Asia with “Amopera – a dystopian ballad”.
The performative meta-opera with works by Luciano Berio, Alban Berg, Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies, Beat Furrer, Sara Glojnarić, Bernhard Lang, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Michael Wertmüller, Iannis Xenakis and Alexander von Zemlinsky will be performed in Hong Kong on March 19 and in Daegu (South Korea) on March 22 and 23.

Performers: Klangforum Wien, Tim Anderson (conductor), Needcompany, Jan Lauwers (director), Paul Blackmann (performer), Holger Falk (baritone), Maarten Seghers (performer), Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Grace Tjang (performer)

On May 11, “Amopera” will be performed with the same cast at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Photo (c) Valerie Maltseva

Holger Falk’s current CD “Georges Auric: Mélodies et Chansons” is on the longlist for the German Record Critics‘ Award.

Schubert and Eisler at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
On February 5, Holger sang a recital at the venerable Library of Congress in Washington D.C. together with Steffen Schleiermacher. The program consisted of selected songs by Hanns Eisler and Franz Schubert. The Coolidge Auditorium was transformed into a salon for an evening of political and socially critical songs that have probably never before been heard at the center of American democracy.
In spring 2025, the Library of Congress will celebrate 100 years of concerts in the library.

Il gondoliere veneziano in Florida, New York City and Connecticut
Together with the ensemble nuovo aspetto, Holger Falk performed the program “Il gondoliere veneziano” three times in the USA in February:
On February 7 in Jacksonville/Florida, on February 9 as part of the Corpus Christi Church-Ancient music festival “music before 1800” in New York City and on February 11 in the auditorium of the University of Connecticut – where Holger Falk also gave a master class for students on February 10.

On November 8, the world premiere of Gordon Kampe’s “Mein Fleisch” will take place at the Philharmonie Essen as part of the NOW! festival. Also to be heard: Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano; Christoph Sietzen, percussion; WDR Symphony Orchestra; Brad Lubman, conductor. The performance will be repeated at the Philharmonie Köln on November 9.

On October 14, Julius Drake and Holger Falk will perform a recital of Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch as part of the Oxford International Song Festival at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford.

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, ‘Moulin Rouge’ or ‘Wages of Fear’ – Georges Auric provided the music for these and around 250 other cinematic masterpieces. His compositions are rarely heard in concert halls today. This makes the selection of songs and chansons that Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher are now presenting in their “Groupe des Six” anthology series all the more commendable. “Georges Auric: Mélodies et chansons” is already the 8th CD in this series and will be available from November 4.